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Article: Tolerance is spirit, heart, benefit of jazz

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August 14, 2009
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Young musicians to learn music's democratic process at U of M

Jazz is the first real world music. It was created in New Orleans about a hundred years ago when a lot of people from a lot of different races refused to segregate. The one thing they had in common was a love for one another's music. Klezmer musicians were mixing with Delta blues musicians who were mixing with marching band musicians that had a love for ragtime. These musicians loved one another's music so much that they risked persecution by the legal authorities just to learn more about each other and to play together. That spark opened the door to the success of the North American social experiment.

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